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The Origins and Early Development of European Fibulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

John Alexander  and
Sheila Hopkin
John Alexander
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
Sheila Hopkin
Affiliation:
32 Newton Road, Oxford
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The invention and acceptance in Europe of an ingenious metal clothes-fastener in the late second and early first millennia BC has long been known. Interest in it and its several thousand variant forms has been concentrated mainly on their importance as type fossils for chronological systems and, more recently, on how they were used, but there has been little study of how or why the ideas spread (Alexander 1973b). Here an attempt will be made to show where the inventions took place and which communities first accepted them.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , 1982 , pp. 401 - 416
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1982

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